Biden to name first Cabinet picks on Tuesday, plans scaled-down inauguration

United States (US) President Donald Trump campaigned in Georgia on Saturday for two Republican senators at a rally that some in his party feared could end up hurting, not helping, their chances by focusing on his efforts to reverse his own election defeat.

President-elect Joe Biden chose more senior aides to lead his administration’s efforts to defeat the coronavirus and rebuild the U.S. economy, and his office confirmed on Sunday he would begin receiving classified briefings that are an essential step toward taking control of national security.

The Supreme Court on Monday is set to take up President Donald Trump’s unprecedented and contentious effort to exclude illegal immigrants from the population totals used to allocate US House of Representatives districts to states.

President Donald Trump will meet with Republican leaders from Michigan at the White House on Friday as his campaign pursues an increasingly desperate bid to overturn the 3 November election result following a series of courtroom defeats.

The personal attorney to the outgoing United States President Donald Trump used a bizarre Thursday press conference to ventilate unsubstantiated claims about electoral fraud, claiming it was nationally coordinated to hand President-Elect Joe Biden victory.

President-elect Joe Biden will focus on shaping his core White House team on Tuesday while outgoing President Donald Trump presses on with his increasingly tenuous legal fight to reverse his loss in the US election.

President-elect Joe Biden on Monday will focus on reviving a pandemic-battered United States economy as he prepares to take office, while outgoing President Donald Trump has promised more lawsuits of the type that so far have failed to alter his election defeat.

President Donald Trump appeared to acknowledge publicly, for the first time on Sunday, that Democrat Joe Biden won the 3 November United States presidential election, but asserted that it was "rigged," reiterating his claims of widespread voting fraud.

A Michigan state court rejected on Friday a request by supporters of President Donald Trump to block the certification of votes in Detroit, which went heavily in favor of President-elect Joe Biden, Trump’s Democratic challenger.

United States President-elect Joe Biden will win the battleground state of Arizona, Edison Research projected on Thursday, dealing another blow to President Donald Trump’s struggling effort to overturn the results of the 3 November presidential election.

Election security officials have no evidence that ballots were deleted or lost by voting systems in this month’s US election, two security groups said in a statement released on Thursday by the lead US cyber-security agency.

The election of Joe Biden as US president gives the International Monetary Fund a chance to reset its relationship with its largest shareholder and make green initiatives a bigger part of its global economic recovery plan.

 Greece and Egypt, which angered Turkey by reaching an agreement on natural resources in the Eastern Mediterranean, will welcome more decisive U.S. involvement in the region under President-elect Joe Biden, the Greek prime minister said on Wednesday.

Nearly 80% of Americans, including more than half of Republicans, recognise President-elect Joe Biden as the winner of the November 3 election after most media organizations called the race for the Democrat based on his leads in critical battleground states, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.

The Mexican president’s hesitation over congratulating Joe Biden on his US presidential election win drew flack from several Latino Democratic lawmakers, warning it risked souring a restart to bilateral ties after years of tension under Donald Trump.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation says President-elect Biden and Vice-President elect Kamala Harris fought a difficult but ultimately successful campaign.

Saudi Arabia finally congratulated Joe Biden on Sunday over his election victory, more than 24 hours after he defeated Donald Trump, who had close personal ties with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation has joined many South Africans in welcoming the presidential elections victory in the US of Democrat, Joe Biden, saying that the president-elect faces a tough task of undoing the deepening of prejudice and hatred during the Trump years.

US President Donald Trump will be subject to the same Twitter Inc rules as any other user when President-elect Joe Biden takes office on Jan. 20, the social media company confirmed this week.

A day after clinching the US presidency, Democrat Joe Biden and his advisers were working on Sunday on how to address the nation’s coronavirus crisis while reinforcing his intention to bridge America’s gaping political divisions.

President Cyril Ramaphosa says he is looking forward to working with US president-elect Joe Biden in strengthening relations between the two countries and tackling tough global problems.

Outgoing United States President Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has indicated that his client is not yet prepared to concede defeat in the election as top Republicans seek legal options to contest the vote outcome.

President-elect Joe Biden declared it was “time to heal” a deeply divided America in his first speech after winning in a bitter election, even as President Donald Trump refused to concede and pressed ahead with legal fights against the outcome.

The African National Congress (ANC) says it hopes there will be no constitutional crisis in the United States where Donald Trump is set to challenge election results in a number of states after Democrat Joe Biden won the race for the presidency.

The African Union has welcomed Joe Biden and his deputy Kamala Harris' victory in the US elections.

The American public has had its say and for the first time in a generation denied a sitting president a second term.

The lawyer for United States President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, has indicated that his client is not yet prepared to concede defeat in the election - as top Republicans seek legal options to contest the vote outcome.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday congratulated US president-elect Joe Biden after his election win saying he looked forward to working together with the new administration and strengthening the two countries' alliance.

On Saturday, Joe Biden won the United States elections against the current President Donald Trump.

Kamala Harris (56) is the first female and African American Vice President-elect. Daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, Harris has knocked down barriers throughout her career.